The Musée du Fumeur (, ''Smoking Museum'') is a private museum of

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located in the

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at 7 rue Pache,

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. This is a museum founded in 2001 by Michka Seeliger-Chatelain and Tigrane Hadengue. It is open daily except Monday; an admission fee is charged. The nearest métro station is

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. The museum is located within a storefront, and contains a collection of smoking objects including European pipes, 17th century clay pipes, Native American

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s, Chinese

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s, Egyptian sheeshas, and

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es, as well as

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samples, hemp-fiber clothing, and etchings, portraits, photographs, videos, and scientific drawings of tobacco plants.

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Musée du Fumeur

Departures: Paris smoking museum honors what city will ban, Rolf Potts, Sunday, November 4, 2007
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